I've never fiddled with any of the exFAT stuff, but I have used the sshfs-fuse, mildly related, as it also works through FUSE. To use sshfs-fuse, after building the correct kernel and installing all of the correct packages, you still have to run some sort of command in order to make the new filesystem available, in my case the "sshfs" command.

I would look through any files your exFAT-related packages install for any commands, man pages, etc. I'm pretty sure the vanilla "mount" command won't do the job for you, and least until you run something else to make the system aware of the exFAT capabilities. I would guess that you either need to add some init script to your default runlevel, or may need to run a different "mount" command.

I've stuck to SDHC for my camera. One SD card lasts me a few months anyway, and I'd just as soon not collect more than that in-camera._________________.sigs waste space and bandwidth

Can you try mount -t <don't know how exfat is called here but insert correct name> /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb/. Or does the exfat-utils package contain a helper program like ntfs-3g? Then use that program. Hope this helps a bit.

Can you try mount -t <don't know how exfat is called here but insert correct name> /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb/. Or does the exfat-utils package contain a helper program like ntfs-3g? Then use that program. Hope this helps a bit.

Based on the error

mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

when mount is run without -t, I gather there is some entry in /etc/fstab. What does it read ?

That works from the command line. How would I go about integrating this into my file manager Thunar? When I click on the external drive in Thunar, it attempts to use the method of `mount -t exfat` instead of using the mount.exfat-fuse command._________________John5788

The first command using -t parameter does not work. calling mount.exfat or mount.exfat-fuse works (they are both symlinked together)

Why doesn't mount -t exfat or mount -t exfat-fuse work?

I don't know of other than too old util-linux version doesn't have support for reading mount or umount helpers from /usr.

I'm using 2.20.1-r2. Do you think this is too old? Should I update to 2.22 (latest)

I think 2.20.1-r2 is the first one where umount wrappers were fixed and mount wrappers was already fixed prior to that. So 2.20.1-r2 should be good. You can try to upgrade. It is safe.

Furthermore you shouldn't really be using mount or umount at all for removable devices, just use `udisks --mount` or `udisks --unmount` with sys-fs/udisks:0 or `udisksctl mount` or `udisksctl unmount` with sys-fs/udisks:2.
Then you can even mount as a normal user as long as you are authorized by ConsoleKit to be 'active = TRUE' in the 'ck-list-sessions' output.